Messaging Architects's blog

Last week, we discussed the much maligned and misrepresented concept of stubbing. If you read that post, you learned that when used properly, stubbing can reduce the size of your mailbox store, thus improving the performance of your live mail system and reducing backup time. So, what does “used properly” really mean? Read more.

Because of its introduction in GroupWise 8, stubbing is getting a lot of attention. The idea behind stubbing is to display email in a user's inbox, but have the actual email content reside outside the email server. The benefit is that you get to keep your messaging system relatively streamlined, but still give users easy access to those stored messages.

Sounds pretty good, right? Well, a bit of Googling may have you questioning the value of stubbing. But, there's nothing like a bit of good, old-fashioned logic to put the naysayers in their place. Read more.